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US authorities seized seven domains supporting alleged Chinese cyber espionage tools used against critical infrastructure and other networks across three continents, disrupting scanning and phishing services while leaving questions about their recovery.
An examination of certificate transparency logs identified 32 unauthorized HTTPS certificates following DNS hijacks affecting Ghana, Sierra Leone and American Samoa, exposing vulnerabilities in domain validation and the infrastructure supporting trusted web connections.
A Trump-affiliated company has applied to operate the .trump top-level domain in ICANN's 2026 expansion round, seeking a dedicated Internet namespace for Trump-branded businesses rather than public domain registrations.
ICANN's 2026 application records show OpenAI and Meta seeking brand and AI-related extensions, while registry operators file larger portfolios. Thirteen applicants want .agent; the proposed strings still face evaluation and possible changes.
ICANN has disclosed 1,615 active applications from 481 applicants for its 2026 new gTLD round, revealing competing bids, regional participation and an outstanding application still undergoing administrative review.
ICANN researchers identified associated domains for 56.4% of malicious registrations studied, introducing a public-data detection method that could inform DNS abuse investigations and proposed registrar obligations.
ICANN added second-level internationalized domain name rules for Javanese and Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and updated seven existing rules, expanding reference material registries can use to define valid labels and variants.
Slovenia's .si domain registrations surged after President Donald Trump promoted "Super Intelligence," with September registrations reaching 46,066 as investors sought names matching the new SI abbreviation.
ICANN will publish applicants, proposed strings and initial contention sets for the 2026 new gTLD round on October 7, followed by a replacement-string period and final string confirmation on November 17.
IPv6 availability now reaches more than half of measured website hosts, but provider-led deployment means the global figure can obscure how heavily adoption depends on major hosting, cloud, CDN, DNS and email platforms.
ICANN says 1,616 applications will proceed in the 2026 new gTLD round, with Reveal Day expected by October 14 to disclose applicants, requested strings and initial contention sets.
ICANN commenters broadly support proposed registrar checks of domains associated with known DNS abuse but urge evidentiary safeguards to prevent weak associations from triggering action against legitimate domains.
ICANN's new Universal Acceptance guidelines target persistent interoperability gaps that prevent internationalized domain names and email addresses from working reliably across browsers, identity systems, applications and other Internet infrastructure.
ICANN has terminated two registrar accreditation agreements after unresolved compliance failures, citing Trustname's handling of DNS abuse and IPIP's failures involving RDAP, registration data escrow, accreditation fees, and access to non-public registration data.
ICANN will retire its Open Data Platform and API on September 1, shifting datasets to downloadable CSV files and forcing researchers, registries and domain-industry organizations to update automated workflows that rely on programmatic data access.
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